This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. In this paper, the author discusses issues related to accountability versus autonomy and suggestions toward a more responsible practice of science.

Paper for the IPRES Annual Conference on building institutional capacity in digital preservation.

Paper on co-training over domain-independent and domain-dependent features for sentiment analysis of an online cancer support community.

This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. In this paper, the author discusses corporate responsibility through a case study of TOMS shoes and their stance in the business world as a for-profit company with social responsibility at its core.

Paper included in a report for the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) on research data management and the DataRes Project. This section reports on The Denton Declaration. Abstract: On May 22, 2012, at the University of North Texas, a group of technologists and librarians, scholars and researchers, university administrators, and other stakeholders gathered to discuss and articulate best practices and emerging trends in research data management. This declaration bridges the converging interests of these stakeholders and promotes collaboration, transparency, and accountability across organizational and disciplinary boundaries.

Paper discussing the diffusion of scientific knowledge on agriculture for Africa. Using exploratory research method, this paper set out to investigate existing knowledge diffusion models and their limitations, available best practices, and the potential to infuse translational research as a way to augment extension service programs in SSA agricultural practices.

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper describes metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE.

Article on methods for analyzing scholarly engagement in alternative media and engaging the Twitter backchannel as digital scholarship.

Paper accompanying a poster for the 2013 International iConference. This paper describes factors that affect digital resource discoverability.

This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. In this paper, the author discusses ethics in counseling, including the admiral qualities of courage that counselors must have to live by personal and professional ethical convictions.

This paper discusses ethics in sustainable tourism development. The author is studying International Sustainable Tourism at the University of North Texas and is exploring how sustainable tourism can be a catalyst for positive change worldwide.

This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. In this paper, the author explores the issue of academic integrity and the prevalence of cheating in academia, issues surrounding reform and preventative measures for dishonesty, and why some students still proudly pursue an honest education.

Paper written for the 2013 Open Repositories conference about the implementation of name authority in the UNT Digital Library.

This paper discusses improving access to web archives through innovative analysis of PDF content. The paper discusses the overall workflow and describes the tools used to extract document features. Findings suggest opportunities for the development of retrieval tools that will provide new ways of selecting content and building collections from large Web archives.

Appendix used to adapt the Interpersonal Decentering scoring system developed for thematic apperceptive techniques to score expressive writing autobiographical essays that were used for the following publications: Jenkins, S. R., Shamji, J., Straup, M., & Boals, A. (2022). Beyond traits and states: Interpersonal decentering is also activated social information processing. Personality and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111332. and Jenkins, S. R., Austin, H., & Boals, A. (2013). Content analysis of expressive writing narratives about stressful relational events using Interpersonal Decentering. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 32, 412 – 432. DOI: 10.1177/0261927X13479188

This paper discusses the history of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program and associated digital newspaper initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries.

Paper outlining research regarding date formatting in the UNT digital collections.

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper discusses the Lifecycle Management of ETDs project.

This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Award for 2013. In this paper, the author discusses media ethics and how changes in journalism and technology have led to new ethical dilemmas.

This paper discusses the Lifecycle Management of ETDs project led by the University of North Texas (UNT) and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This paper explains the research methodology the project took to evaluate these various tools, IRs and related submission systems; share findings; and discuss how these findings have solidified implementation improvements for the above mentioned curation technologies (Clam, AV, JHOVE/JHOVE2, DROID & FITS).

This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Award for 2013. This paper discusses Nazi-era art restitution. The author examines the unique history of the World War II art plunder and the dilemma and issues that heirs and museums face.

This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. This paper discusses music appreciation. The author looks at who is qualified to teach a Music Appreciation course, what the true purpose of such a course is in the general curriculum, and what our responsibility in musically educating our citizens is.

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper discusses research on open access publishing fees and article processing charges.

Paper presented at the 8th International Digital Curation Conference on the problematic future of research data management.